M.H. (Mieke) Kox, MA is a PhD candidate at the Criminology department of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and a postdoc candidate at the Human Geography and Planning Department of Utrecht University.
Her PhD research discusses how migration control matters to unauthorized migrants. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork amongst 105 unauthorized migrants in the Netherlands, Nigeria and Surinam. Mieke's postdoc project focuses on the everyday experiences of refugee youth and asylum seekers in public space and is funded by HERA.